Restore Windows Photo Viewer in Windows 10

JAY B · 13 Aug 2020

Brink said:

That is odd only those 3 pictures seem to cause this.

If you like, save the .jpg picture as a .png in Paint to see if the now .png also does this Windows Photo Viewer.

Here's the result !???

Restore Windows Photo Viewer in Windows 10-jpg-png.png

This will remain a complete mystery !!!

Thank You !

Brink · 13 Aug 2020

JAY B said:

Here's the result !???

This will remain a complete mystery !!!

Thank You !

Got me as well.

JAY B · 13 Aug 2020

If it got you, imagine me !

THanks a lot !

Have a Nice Day !

Mark0 · 29 Aug 2020

Just wanted to drop a line to say thank you!
I missed photo viewer so much. Awesome.

Brink · 29 Aug 2020

Mark0 said:

Just wanted to drop a line to say thank you!
I missed photo viewer so much. Awesome.

You're most welcome Mark. I'm glad it could help.

xraiderv1 · 29 Aug 2020

why did microsoft depreciate the original photo viewer anyways? it was perfect.

ThrashZone · 29 Aug 2020

Hi,
It's not a phone app.

gvsoft · 17 Oct 2020

Thank you, Brink!
it helped me a lot.

Brink · 17 Oct 2020

gvsoft said:

Thank you, Brink!
it helped me a lot.

You're most welcome, and welcome to Ten Forums.

Yussee · 23 Oct 2020

Hi,

I solved this problem without poking the registry.
Just create a batch file (.bat) with these rows:

@ECHO OFF
START rundll32 "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.dll", ImageView_Fullscreen %~f1

Then associate your pictures and photos with that bat.

I'm not sure why this solution can not be found anywhere in the internet? Just had to figure it out myself...